Life Orientation

• Self Esteem: Refers to how you see yourself and how much you think you are worth
• Positive self esteem: Positive self image and confidence in your abilities
• Negative self esteem: Low self image, low confidence, hate towards themselves
• Signs of low self esteem?


  Fear of failure

  Withdrawal from society

  Avoiding being put on the spot
• Influences on Self Esteem: Peer pressure, Life experiences, Cultural Identity, Celebrity culture, Media, Family, Religion, Education
• Peer pressure: The pressure to conform to the opinions and actions of others.
• Direct peer pressure: pressure directed on a person from another peer to do something
• Positive peer pressure: Pressure to engage in positive behaviour.
• Indirect Peer pressure: Subtle pressure to conform to the group.
• Social Comparison?

  
  

  Upwards: Comparing ourselves to those who we view are better than us

  Downwards: comparing to those we view are inferior
• Life experiences: Environments that affect our self esteem, eg. childhood, parents...home.
• Cultural Identity: Culture we grew up in affects our self image and how we see ourselves in relation to others.
• Celebrity culture: Influenced by things online like celebrities...but some of the things we see online is unrealistic.
• Bullying?


  Physical: hitting, kicking etc.

  Verbal: TEasing, name calling, aggressive language etc.

  Emotional: Rumours, left out..

  CYberbullying: Online bullying.

  Prejudicial: Bullying based on race, religion or sex.
• Consequences of low self esteem: Poor body image, mental health issues, relationship problems, negative effects on schoolwork
• Poor body image: How you see yourself, mainly a negative image.
• Disordered eating: Abnormal eating patterns,health problems that require specific diets
• Eating disorder: Bad relationship with food due to the social standard to look a certain way.
• Strategies to deal with disordered eating.

  Intuitive eating: Listening to your hunger and cue signals.

  Mindful eating: Eating slowly to understand if you are overeating or undereating.

  Managing emotions: Instead of eating when emotional or bored, focus on food for nutrition only.
• Consequence 2: Mental Health Issues (depression, anxiety, low confidence)


  Strategies to overcome: Enough sleep, avoid alcohol and drugs, deal with your emotions instead of shoving them down
• Relationship problems: Low self esteem may lead you to push people away.
• Negative effects on schoolwork: You feel as if you're destined to fail so you stop trying.
• Strategies for Building Self Esteem : Live a life by design not by default

  • Extend your personal potential
  • Don't let life pass you by.
• Strategies for Building Self Esteem: Atomic Habits?


  Cue: Trigger

  Craving: Motivates habit formation

  Response: Repetition of habit

  Reward: Reward for it, satisfy us
• Strategies for Building Self-esteem: Be uniquely you?


  Be proud of who you are.
• Strategies for Building Self-esteem: Manage your self talk?


  Positive affirmations

  think in a positive manner
• Strategies for Building Self-Esteem: Express gratitude?


  Improves mental health

  Sleep better: Positivity calms thoughts and lowers heartrate
• Strategies for Building Self esteem: Support system?


  Depend on the people who love you to help you
• Strategies for Building Self-esteem: Boost your EQ?

  Be able to recognize your feelings and articulate your emotions
• Strategies for Building Self Esteem: Exercise?


  Kickstarts dorphines (dopamine)

  • makes you feel good